(a.) Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
(a.) Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
(n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
(n.) A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
(n.) Hence, a jester, a fool.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the face of the reef’s impending doom a motley collection of ordinary Australians shared a common determination that something had to be done.
(2) The brief sub-section of article 26 could be devastating to efforts to prosecute narcotics gangs, and if it comes into force would undermine the security forces and legal system, according to Kimberley Motley, a lawyer with a practice in Kabul.
(3) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(4) But few, including the motley coalition of political parties backing him, expect him to give up any power.
(5) It was these motley collections of dreamers and bean-counters who began constructing massive, complex systems for seemingly private communication inside games.
(6) Many said they were there to protest at Ukip's stance on immigration and the political backgrounds of Ukip's motley collection of local council candidates; others were there to protest against his party's obscure economic policies.
(7) I grew up in Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and remember how the greens were dismissed by the mainstream media and political establishment as nothing more than a motley collection of ex-hippies with no understanding of real-world politics who coalesced around a single issue.
(8) "The law is not just [about] in-court testimony, but it says that witnesses cannot even be questioned, which takes a lot of authority away from the Afghan police, Afghan army, NDS [intelligence agency], and the attorney general's office," said Motley.
(9) No major international bodies are monitoring the vote, but a motley selection of observers from 23 countries have arrived of their own accord.
(10) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(11) The Good Terrorist (1985) After two short novels under the pseudonym Jane Somers, Lessing returned to publishing under her own name with this story of a well-intentioned revolutionary, Alice, who lives in a north London squat with a motley bunch of fellow militants.
(12) The network’s chair, Tory county councillor Cecilia Motley, complained of a “tsunami of swingeing cuts” that would “make life for hundreds of thousands of people across all areas of rural England totally intolerable.” This angry grassroots reaction from the Tory shires has been awkward for the PM, for whom council cuts, for so long relatively unnoticed, at least among his affluent core support, appear to have become a liability.
(13) He said the committee was a “motley collection of amateurs” who would destroy Ukip.
(14) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.
(15) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(16) Whether Manafort and the rest of Trump’s motley crew can pull something resembling a platform together ahead of the convention is anyone’s guess.
(17) It is an endless field of tiny wooden and perspex blocks, low-rise courtyards huddled cheek by jowl with a motley jumble of towers, expanding ever outwards in concentric rings.
(18) The motley contents of my baking cupboard – some flour, sugar, a handful of currants and a few crusty tins of syrup – are hardly inspiring, but I've vowed not to leave the house until the weather brightens.
(19) A few weeks later a motley group of radical rightwing European populists turned up in Crimea to watch its hastily arranged “referendum”.
(20) It is worth noting also that the official observers for this sham display of democracy were a motley collection of Putin apologists and – ironically given all the fury over "fascists" in Kiev – members of far-right parties.
Variegated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Variegate
(a.) Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(3) The diagnosis depends on fecal excretion of porphyrins, which is greatly increased in variegate porphyria and consists predominantly of protoporphyrin.
(4) Although clinical improvements occurred in the case of variegate porphyria, the results were inconclusive for reasons given.
(5) Appropriate laboratory tests on urine and feces samples are necessary to distinguish between PCTS and variegate porphyria when a young woman presents with the skin lesions characteristic of cutaneous hepatic porphyrias.
(6) One patient with variegate prophyria and two with hereditary coproporphyria had an attack related to pregnancy.
(7) The theory of the unconscious that arises from the method of direct interpretation reflects a differentiated inner world with variegated landscapes of images and frameworks.
(8) The faecal porphyrin patterns of 24 patients with porphyria cutanea tarda symptomatica (PCTS), eight patients with variegate porphyria, three patients with other types of porphyria, and 20 non-porphyrics subjects have been compared using a two-demensional thin layer chromatographic technique that separates porphyrins of the isocoproporphyrin series from other faecal porphyrins.
(9) A 62-year-old man with variegate porphyria is reported.
(10) Four patients with variegate porphyria (VP) were treated with repeated haem arginate infusions daily for 4 days and then weekly for 4 weeks.
(11) Hence, the differences in binding of the w+ gene probe in the variegating and variegation-suppressed strains reflect differences in chromosomal packaging rather than alterations in gene number.
(12) The lesions appeared brownish black, and most were variegated from tan to black.
(13) Thus, mice with variegating transgenes can provide molecular access to gene control mechanisms and to their consequences in development and disease.
(14) The results provide some indication as to the mechanism and timing for the general suppression of position-effect variegation by supernumerary heterochromatin in the genome.
(15) Beautiful and ancient plants, such as spreading bellflower , could become extinct in some places through the escape of variegated yellow archangel from gardens.
(16) Variegated endocrine cells were documented within this lining, using immunohistochemical and ultrastructural techniques.
(18) In white-mottled (wm) position-effect variegation mutants, a significant correlation was found between the extent of variegation (percentage of yellow cells) and riboflavin content (growth effect) of the MT.
(19) Four patients suffering from variegate prophyria were investigated during acute attacks.
(20) These changes include variegated hyperplasia of the pulp with epithelioid cells, mature eosinophilic granulocytes and immunoblasts occasionally resembling Hodgkin cells.